Sunday, November 19, 2006

Mad Tom's Tank

I made this Tank model in Max 7 over a year or more ago for the Mad Tom's Farm project over at Qurios Entertainment. The tracks never got made by me because the guys at Qurios were going to have to build a set of tracks that could be animated. The model was base on this illustration by Niel Bushnell http://tinyurl.com/t3kqq

I love the Starsky and Hutch colour and stripe down the side. We also added a 'Mr Fusion' from Back to the Future although I belive they renamed it 'Mrs Fission' to avoid a legal problems :) There's also a satellite dish, so you can watch TV while you drive, though that's not recommended.

Here's a grey render of the model that I did. Kind of like an unpainted plastic kit.I wanted to do at least one pic of the tank in an environment outdoors, but because it doesn't have tracks I figured I'd hide that area behind some mud and grass, a bit of a cheat I know :)The Mad Tom's Farm project has now been renamed Farmageddon and has new Blog which you can visit here http://tinyurl.com/wyvua

I'm not sure if the tank is going to be in the project anymore, if it is I think it's playing a much smaller part than originally proposed.

All pictures were rendered in Vue 5 Infinite with some Photoshop work mainly for Depth of Field.